recipes

Tabouli Salad

I am Lebanese. When I was a little girl, my mum taught my two sisters and me how to sew and how to cook. The dish I was most interested in learning about was tabouli salad. It is a special dish. It is served for the first course, especially in summer. We have this dish twice a week in summer, because it is especially good on a hot day. If we have a visitor, tabouli salad is the first dish on the table. Tabouli salad is filling and healthy.

Ingredients

Method

quarter of a cup of bulgar wheat 

4 firm tomatoes 

2 bunches continental parsley 

 bunch spring onion 

1 bunch fresh mint 

1 cucumber 

2 tablespoons olive oil juice of 

1 lemon salt pepper

Dip the bulgar wheat in water and remove immediately. Strain the water out and put the wheat aside. Chop the tomatoes, parsley, spring onion, mint and cucumber. Put everything in a bowl and add the olive oil, lemon juice, and salt & pepper to taste. Serve with cos lettuce or with pita bread.